NAIROBI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Saturday.

-- Thousands of families stare at bleak economic times following a wave of employee layoffs announced by leading companies in the past few weeks.

The job losses in commercial banks, breweries and cement manufacturing sectors sharply contrast the lauded economic growth painted by official data and present policymakers with the need to rethink a working solution for a country whose economic growth contradicts its job market. (Saturday Nation)

-- The countdown to the end of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination has officially kicked off with only four years left to the death of the decades-old test that were a hallmark of cutthroat competition.

It is now official that children under the new 2-6-3-3-3 education system will not sit national examinations at the end of the primary school education.(Saturday standard)

-- ODM leadr Raila Odinga has stepped up his efforts to build new alliances in Rift Valley and Mt Kenya regions as the race to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022 hots up.

The former Prime Minister wants to exploit his handshake with Uhuru to turn tables against Deputy President Willam Ruto in Mt Kenya and at the same time eat into the DP's support base in Rift Valley.(Star) Enditem

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